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Knight Moves (video game)

1995 video game

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 27, 2025
Entity authorityQ16259730 ↗
Source-derived summary

Knight Moves is a puzzle video game released for Windows in 1995.

Gameplay

The player controls a chess knight, and must navigate around various hazards and enemies to pick up power-ups and treasure.

Reception

Next Generation reviewed the PC version of the game, rating it two stars out of five, and stated that "Coupled with a set of frustratingly difficult levels early on, Knight Moves almost seems made to disappoint puzzle gamers."

Brad Cook of AllGame found that the graphics and sound to be well done, but said the game was too difficult as the knight would jump anywhere you placed the mouse.

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“Knight Moves (video game)” enters the record as 1995 video game. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Knight, Moves and video can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1995—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1995-01-01. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Knight, Moves and video.
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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Mar 27, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q16259730. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1995.

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This entry incorporates text from “Knight Moves (video game)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.